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A mock trial is a dynamic learning exercise that utilizes interactive role play to engage students in collaborative, active learning.

Tragedies, such as the recent violence at Club Q in Colorado Springs and in Half Moon Bay and Monterey Park, can occur at any point in semester and can deeply affect students. Given that experiences outside the classroom can impact student learning and academic performance (Ambrose, 2010), how can instructors support their students while they process reactions to traumatic events?

Five innovative approaches that address current issues in academic nursing education were recently selected for the 2022-23 Educational Innovation and Scholarship Incentive Program. 

A few years before the pandemic, an undergraduate student mentioned the upcoming Halloween weekend and randomly mentioned that vampires were their biggest fear. Everyone laughed. But that comment rubbed up against so many other things I’d been hearing and reading: real fears and stresses that students were facing.  

At the 2022 Original Lilly Conference, Drake Institute AffiliateNicholas Denton, Ph.D., and Amy Kulesza, Ph.D., demonstrated that lab courses encouraging inquiry-based student learning and team-based learning enhanced undergraduate students' motivations to persistent in STEM, including sense of science identity, STEM community, project ownership, and networking.